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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 210. State Department of Education |
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Chapter 35. Standards for Accreditation of Elementary, Middle Level, Secondary, and Career and Technology Schools |
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Subchapter 13. Standards for Accreditation of Career and Technology Schools |
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Part 15. STANDARD VIII: STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS |
SECTION 210:35-13-91. Statement of the standard
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- The Technology Center provides a diversified and balanced program of appropriate Career Technology Student Organization (CTSO) activities which are an integral part of each career technology program's activities and instruction.(1) Each secondary career technology education program shall have an active and appropriate CTSO as an integral part of the career technology program. Appropriate CTSOs are defined as follows: DECA/Delta Epsilon Chi (Marketing Education); FBLA/PBL (Business Education), Future Business Leaders of America/Phi Beta Lambda; FFA (Agricultural Education); FCCLA (Family and Consumer Sciences Education), Family, Career and Community Leaders of America; HOSA (Health Occupations Education), Health Occupations Students of America; TSA (Technology Education), Technology Students Association; and Skills USA/VICA (Trade and industrial Education), Skills USA/Vocational Industrial Clubs of America.(2) Each student who participates in a CTSO shall be involved in the CTSO which is designed for the occupational program in which the student is enrolled.(A) The maximum number of absences for activities, whether sponsored by the sending school, Technology Center, or outside agency/organization, which removes the student from the classroom shall be ten for any one class period of each school year. Excluded from this number are state and national levels of school-sponsored contests. State and national competitive events are those for which a student must earn the right to compete.(B) Students who participate in CTSO activities at the Technology Center shall meet the eligibility rules of the sending schools in which they are also enrolled. It is recommended that the eligibility rules meet or exceed the rules of the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association.(3) The leadership development activities associated with the CTSO shall be directed and supervised by the appropriate career technology instructor with support and guidance from the Technology Center administration.(4) The school shall provide resources needed to support the career technology student organization activities.(5) School sponsored activities held when school is not in session shall follow the same standards as those held during the regular school year.(6) The Technology Center shall cooperate with the sending school to support participation of students in co-curricular and extracurricular activities of the home school.(7) The school and the career technology student organization chapter will be held accountable for the actions of the career technology student organization members and the advisor participating in any career technology student organization activity.